Prospect

23 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Prospect, from 443 m² to 93,577 m² (9.36 ha, 23.12 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 18 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Prospect in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application.

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

No planning application touches the townland of Prospect in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Prospect.

Recorded monuments

• GA017-144 Platform
  Description

  In pastureland. Marked on 1st ed. of OS 6-inch map as a small circular earthwork (D c. 20m) surmounted by a trigonometrical station. Along with GA017-145----, it was described by Neary (1914, 116, no. 156) as 'circular, earthen raths … now mere mounds 6 ft. [1.82m] above roadway in Prospect demesne'. What is visible is a small circular platform (D 8.9m), in fair condition, defined by a scarp (H 1.2m max.). There is a small circular grassed-over heap of stone (D 1.2m, H 0.2m) in N half of the interior: possibly a house or a landscape feature. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

• GA017-145 Earthwork
  Description

  On roadside 70m ENE of a similar monument (GA017-144----). Marked on OS 6-inch maps as a circular enclosure (D c. 20m). What is visible is a circular platform (D c. 11.6m), in fair condition, defined by a scarp (H 2m max. at NE). This is supplemented from S to W by traces of an external fosse and outer bank. The surface of the platform is uneven. Possibly a house, a landscape feature, or even a windmill mound. (Neary 1914, 116, no. 156) The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Prospect.

Designated sites: National Parks and Wildlife Service. Recorded monuments: Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service. Buildings: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Works at or in relation to a recorded monument need two months' written notice to the National Monuments Service (National Monuments (Amendment) Act 1994, section 12).

Radon

About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are made ground.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Prospect.

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both CC BY 4.0. LiDAR: contains Irish Public Sector Data (Geological Survey Ireland & the Office of Public Works) licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence.

No address of the register names Prospect with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Prospect · Prospect

Area

425,692 m² (42.57 ha, 105.19 acres)

Civil parish

Dunmore, and its townlands

Barony

Dunmore

Electoral division

Dunmore North, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Dunmore North electoral division: 604 people in 221 households; 94% of households own their home; 27% of homes were built since 2001; 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cappagh, Castlefarm, Derrymore, Knockatee East

Placenames

Prospect on logainm.ie, the Placenames Database of Ireland

Townlands, civil parishes, baronies and electoral divisions, National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. Census 2022, Small Area Population Statistics by electoral division, Central Statistics Office, CC BY 4.0. A townland is the smallest land division of Ireland, and the unit of a rural address; old registers such as the 1901 and 1911 censuses file it under its civil parish and barony.